TITLE 45

LIENS, MORTGAGES AND PLEDGES

CHAPTER 6

CLAIMS FOR WAGES

45-613.  Discharging or retaliating against employees asserting rights under this chapter. No employer shall discharge or in any other manner retaliate against any employee because that employee has made a complaint to the employer, or to the department, or filed suit alleging that the employee has not been paid in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, or because the employee has testified or may be about to testify in an investigation or hearing undertaken by the department. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to otherwise restrict the discipline or termination of an employee.

History:

[45-613, added 1989, ch. 280, sec. 14, p. 682; am. 1996, ch. 421, sec. 36, p. 1429; am. 1999, ch. 51, sec. 14, p. 121.]